![]() Orpheus plays his guitar and charms everyone with his beautiful music but Eurydice works alone to provide for them and as winter sets in she finds his music does not feed them. The Fates (Lulu Fall, Shaina Taub, Jessie Shelton) follow these lovers wherever they go. Here, narrator Hermes (the intriguing Chris Sullivan), dressed as a depression-era vagabond, beckons us into the world of Orpheus (Damon Daunno) and Eurydice (Nabiyah Be) who are in love but struggle in their poverty. With a lo-fi aesthetic and a stripped-down approach, the show tells us the love story of Orpheus and Eurydice through a 1930’s-style musical vernacular. Based on the concept album by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and directed by Rachel Chavkin, Hadestown manages to be both simple in structure but complex in references. In a mythological underworld that invokes the spirit and cadence of Woody Guthrie, The Great Depression, Robert Johnson’s crossroads, company towns, and robber barons, Hadestown is a mostly successful political-allegory musical. ![]() “Let the world we dream about be the one we’re living in.” Concept album/political allegory musical. ![]()
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